Is enabling Hyper-V is requisite to run the emulator for Windows Phone 8?

Question

Is it NOT possible to run the emulator for Windows Phone 8 only by installing the Windows Phone SDK 8.0 with Visual Studio 2013 without enabling Hyper-V for the emulator?

Answer 1

No. Yes the Hyper-V is required, the reason I needed to buy a new laptop. It uses the virtual machine system / setup to run up a VM for the phone. In fact, you cannot start MS virtual machine manager on a PC without Hyper-v

See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/ff626524(v=vs.105).aspx

 System requirements
     •In the BIOS, the following features must be supported:

          ◦Hardware-assisted virtualization.

 Hyper-V requirements
   •In the BIOS, the following features must be enabled:

     ◦Hardware-assisted virtualization.
     ◦Second Level Address Translation (SLAT).
     ◦Hardware-based Data Execution Prevention (DEP).

 •In Windows, Hyper-V must be enabled and running.

 •You have to be a member of the local Hyper-V Administrators group.